Welcome to Emantra

Australia's full-service hosting provider

Emantra has organised its public cloud centric services under a new brand "Cloudable". Cloudable shares Emantra's pool of expertise and facilities in enterprise private hosting, and offers bundled and optional services including local support and product enhancements, and a mature hybrid computing capability.

Business

Outcomes through Technology.

Hosting

Emantra hosts applications, platforms and infrastructure using the "as a service" model from premier data centres located in Australia. Your choice of physical or virtual machines, and dedicated or multi-tenanted software instances. Delivered through multiple diverse gigabit gateways certified to PROTECTED level to the internet, private network or VPNs. These high-availability services, from full-touch to low-touch, carry a financially backed SLA tailored to your critical requirements. Emantra’s customers, including many government agencies and large corporate entities, are drawn to its agility, service flexibility and the quality of its local care and attention.

Cloud

As an Australian Cloud Solution Provider partner of Microsoft, Emantra can curate and support your implementation of Office365, Skype for Business, Enterprise Mobility Suite and Azure. From guidance, discovery, benchmarking and recommendation to migration, testing, implementation and ongoing hand-holding at the level you choose. We manage these services using the same skills learned from ten years of private hosting and case study involvement with Microsoft. Partner with Emantra to benefit from the global scale and sophistication of Microsoft’s cloud combined with Australian compliance, productivity enhancements, integration and dedicated local support.

Hybrid

Emantra provides integration and satellite services to customers with a hybrid of on-premise, private hosting and public cloud computing resources. We design, implement and support such architectures which achieve goals of simplicity, cost saving, and reliability. Our services can largely replace your in-house IT cost centre, or help you rationalise its ongoing role. From a user perspective, the best hybrid solutions are invisible. Careful attention is therefore required to access and identity management, rights management and the integration of diverse resources in a secure manner. This is a new and developing field, one where Emantra is building a leading Australian capability.

Full Service Hosting

Emantra has the skills and perspective gained as an enterprise hosting practitioner for ten years. We now bring that experience to bear in the public cloud arena.Full service hosting means that we are able to exploit the best of both technologies to deliver your optimal solution. Few others can do this. Emantra’s services are utilised directly by customers or channelled through some of the largest system integrators, developers, and SaaS software vendors in the country. We are privately owned and proudly Australian. We invest in local jobs, facilities and suppliers. Read below about some of our featured services or call us on 1300 728 953 anytime for more information. Initial consultations are always free and without obligation.

Featured Services

All served with 24/7 technical support.

Private Hosting

Australian, PROTECTED level

Microsoft Collaboration 2016

Exchange, SharePoint, Skype.

Support and Enhancement

A local accountable partner.

Hosting for Government

Onshore, compliant, secure.

Hybrid Solutions

One window to rule them all.

CMS for Government

Hosted Drupal aGov websites.

Enterprise Mobility Suite

Identity, BYOD, security.

Managed Migration

Are we there yet?

Calls and Conferencing

Skype for Business.

Backup and immutable storage

Smart, scalable, secure.

Managed IaaS

Optimise, manage, monitor.

DLM Tagging

Compliance for private and public cloud.

Private Hosting

Private hosting is Emantra’s pedigree and remains its flagship service. Our impressive clientele recognise Emantra as an Australian leader in this field.

Emantra delivers its private hosting services from continually updated physical and virtualised infrastructure located in premier Australian Tier 3+ data centres. The services range from fully-managed "set and forget" SaaS or PaaS solutions to lower touch bulk storage or IaaS. Each service is designed to meet the customer’s unique mix of compute, storage, privacy, resilience and performance needs. Unlike public cloud services, other customers do not contend for shared resources and your data is physically segmented and individually encrypted.

Microsoft Collaboration 2016

Emantra hosts dedicated and shared instances of Microsoft’s enterprise messaging and collaboration suite including Exchange, SharePoint, Skype for Business and Dynamics CRM.

These services are attractive to customers who want the fully-featured Enterprise Edition software, the ability to access server side controls for improved customisation and integration, and the advantages of local hosting in terms of data sovereignty and custodianship, service and contract flexibility, branding and a local support fabric.

Full technical support and a web-based administrator control panel is included in all plans. The service features full out-of-the-box enterprise version functionality. There is no annual commitment required on shared plans.

Support and Enhancement

Microsoft Office365 is a global public cloud service which delivers Exchange, Outlook, SharePoint and the familiar Office suite to your desktop or mobile device. You can licence Office365 from Emantra at the same price as from Microsoft direct, but with the added advantage that you can access our local support and advice.

Emantra provides bulk automated migration and monthly support plans for all levels of Office365. We can help you decide which service tier best fits your need, and optimise the components to get the best value for money. If you assign Emantra as you Microsoft "Partner of Record", we can monitor your service and manage your account to reduce cost and take advantage of SLA entitlements or product upgrades when available.

Emantra also offers a range of Office365 enhancements for government and enterprise which add local compliance and productivity features such as local archiving, email security tagging, unified identity management, etc.

Hosting for Government

Emantra offers dedicated hosting facilities in both the ACT and Queensland which are devoted to government clients whose data is classified at up to PROTECTED level.

Emantra maintains separate physical pods for these services, and no commercial customers are carried on this infrastructure. The data centres are familiar to government, are ASIO T4 Protective Security Certified and are of Tier 3+ standard. Our gateways in both data centres are ASD Certified and subject to annual I-RAP audit.

From this infrastructure, Emantra provides both dedicated instance and multi-tenanted services. Our national dark fibre network allows intra-state or inter-state load balancing and back-up. Existing departmental software licences and licences procured under whole-of-government arrangements can be assigned to Emantra services. We have many government clients at all levels, and understand the particular needs of this clientele. Emantra’s services can be found on most IT service procurement panels.

Hybrid Solutions

Across the enterprise, a single IT resource is an exception today. Going all out with on-premise deployment is draining of capital and labour, and often becomes a distraction from the business itself. Private hosting alone will not always scale up and down economically, and public cloud is restricted to the locked-down services available.

A combination of computing and storage resources, a hybrid solution, will many times prove to be the optimal solution. A hybrid solution keeps your application and database servers as dedicated resources but lets you burst into the cloud as and when you need additional capacity. It allows you to exploit low cost public services for simpler needs and pay for more only when you need it.

Emantra can interconnect your on-premise resources and public cloud accounts with our Private Cloud as a pivot service. This is done in a way that is invisible to users and where relative strengths can be best exploited.

CMS for Government

aGov is a free open source Drupal distribution developed specifically for the Australian Government and used by more than 600 websites.

Emantra hosts aGov websites from its two Canberra data centres on private cloud infrastructure solely utilised for Australian Government services. Emantra’s Hosted aGov service features a PROTECTED level gateway, enhanced intrusion prevention and monitoring, a financially-backed 99.9% uptime SLA, and unlimited bandwidth. The back-end, for content management and administration purposes, is accessible via agency-authorised ICON connection, private link, secure VPN or the internet. Provisioning via internet is same day and we offer a free accompanying test and development site.

Find this service on the Australian Government Cloud Service Panel or contact Emantra for more information. Emantra can also introduce and manage a Drupal development partner for you if required.

Drupal is a registered trademark of Dries Buytaert. aGov is a registered trademark of PreviousNext.

Enterprise Mobility Suite

At its core, Enterprise Mobility Suite (EMS) is a set of four Microsoft-hosted tools which add compliance, control and protection to your existing IT infrastructure.

EMS allows administrators to manage and control all devices accessing your corporate resources, including PCs, Macs, smartphones, tablets and servers (Windows and Linux) and other BYOD. It provides advanced threat management such as the real-time detection and reporting of hacking attempts and other malicious activity, and user-profiling which will alert to unusual internal activity. It enables the integration of identity across platforms including other hosted and on-premise web services. And it provides for improved data security and rights management.

These are advanced features which add critical benefits to your mobile workforce and cloud environment. However, they will need to be deployed and monitored properly for your organisation to optimise these benefits.

Emantra has several offerings designed around the different components of EMS. These include assistance with the selection and implementation of the service components which can deliver the most value to your organisation, and the ongoing 24/7 management and monitoring to ensure that they do.

Emantra can also multiply and extend the benefits by the addition of a locally hosted Microsoft System Centre service integrated with your EMS deployment.

Managed Migration

Emantra offers an award-winning automated service for mass email, file and application migration. To or from on-premise, private hosting and public cloud applications or storage resources.

Email migration sources include Exchange, Lotus Notes, Novell (all versions) and other to Exchange/Outlook or Office365.

We use specialist tools and a systematic approach to ensure completeness and accuracy. Data cleansing and de-duplication is optional. Our formal project-managed approach is designed to fit with your timetable and involve minimal business interruption. We will guarantee a completion date and manage service cut-overs. Fixed quoting on a per mailbox basis.

Calls and Conferencing

Skype for Business is a unified communications solution that enhances collaboration and productivity in organisations from 50 to 10,000 users.

You will reduce the cost of supporting multiple telephony services by upgrading to one solution that includes everything—voice, video, and online meetings. And you can continue using the on-premises equipment you already have as you gradually move to the cloud.

Emantra offers a broad set of capabilities to get your organization up and running on Skype for Business, and to optimise its ongoing use. We can help you deploy and manage the service and assist with integrating existing applications and hardware with Skype for Business platform.

Backup and immutable storage

Emantra offers bulk online storage which is scalable, secure and self-provisionable, and paid for on a monthly consumption basis. All services are Australian located and hosted behind certified PROTECTED level gateways in premium Tier 3+ data centres.

If you don’t want the frills, there is raw online storage on shared or dedicated SAN via Secure FTP access at the lowest cost.

If you’re looking for more, we host and support most major smart storage protocols including Symantec Enterprise Vault and CommVault, which can integrate with your applications and email and provide an effective back-up service.

For the ultimate legal protection over data, Emantra offers premium e-discovery-compliant immutable storage solutions which can be certified to comply with many Australian privacy mandates.

Managed IaaS

Azure is a global Infrastructure-as-a-Service platform hosted by Microsoft. It delivers modern, scalable resources which you can use for application housing and data storage.

The Azure services on offer are sophisticated and need to be carefully selected and optimised. They will assume the customer has a reasonably high level of technical training and do not typically include the application management, maintenance and monitoring you may be used to. You will still have to install and manage anything you run on Azure. There are also some critical pricing factors and choices which require capable analysis.

Emantra provides a suite of Managed Azure services which will help you get the most out of this popular global cloud platform and integrate it with your existing on-premise or Private Hosting arrangements. We will analyse your requirements and recommend the optimal service mix in the first place. On top of basic capabilities of the platform itself, Emantra adds managed application and data migration, application deployment, upgrading, patching, penetration testing, custom backup. We provide enhance monitoring and alert services which include trending analysis and proactive notification to reduce your risk of downtime. We will monitor the overall uptime and performance of Azure and ensure it achieves SLA. We will tailor a project or standing support plan which will add value to, and significantly lower the risk of, your Azure investment.

DLM Tagging

Emantra offers an ISM compliant DLM Tagging service as an add-on to its Dedicated Hosted Exchange service and as a local enhancement to Office365.

This system requires end-users to apply a security classification to all email messages and documents they create. Emails thus classified can then be examined at the email gateway and blocked, quarantined, automatically encrypted or allowed on their way as determined by your organisation’s security policy and the destination address. Many government agencies require this as a mandatory feature however the service also appeals to large commercial organisations who want to prevent leakage of sensitive information and limit legal liability and exposure.

Classification schema are available out of the box or fully customisable to match your organisation’s security policy.

About

Our Journey.

2005

Vision and Inception.

Emantra was founded in 2005. Our vision from the outset is to deliver smarter business outcomes using the best new technologies.

2006

Microsoft Gold Partner.

Emantra rose to prominence as a trusted national hosting provider and was awarded Microsoft Gold Partner status in 2006. Deloitte gave us a Rising Star Award this year.

2008

Deloitte Fast 50 Winner.

We are awarded first place in the Australian edition of the Deloitte Fast 50 program as the fastest growing Australian technology company over the last three years.

2009

Polaris Data Centre.

Emantra becomes an anchor tenant in the Polaris Data Centre at Springfield in Queensland upon its opening in January 2009. Polaris is a Tier3+ facility jointly developed by the Queensland Government and private enterprise.

2010

Microsoft Hosting Solution Partner of the Year.

Emantra wins its second Microsoft Partner of the Year Award. We are also selected as a Case Study Partner for Microsoft’s launch of its new Systems Centre and Hyper-V technologies in Australia.

2011

Australian Government Hosting.

Emantra opens its Canberra office and commences hosting operations for the Australian Government from its dedicated infrastructure within the premier data centre in the ACT.

2012

Gateways certified to PROTECTED level.

The Emantra-owned gateways in Polaris and Canberra are certified by the Australian Signals Directorate to PROTECTED level. Emantra is one of only a handful of Australian service providers to have achieved this standard of security accreditation.

2013

New partnerships.

Emantra invests in new skills and partnerships with Amazon Web Services, F5 and VMware to further broaden its enterprise capabilities.

2014

Government Panel listings

Emantra adds its services to government procurement panels as they mature to embrace private hosting services. New listings this year include the AG Cloud Services Panel and the QG Electronic Communications and Collaboration Panel.

2015

Emantra turns 10!

Emantra celebrates ten years of constant growth with thanks to its loyal customers and terrific staff and suppliers.

Gateway certification

Emantra maintains PROTECTED level gateways certified by the ASD at its data centres to satisfy the mandate of many if its Government customers. This higher level of monitoring and control brings benefits to all Emantra customers.

Independence

Emantra is a pure-play hosting provider. We partner with the nation’s best integrators, developers, telcos and software vendors, but are independent of all. Thus we can select the best of what the market has to offer in building your solution.

SLA

Our SLAs are clear, fair and meaningful. They are customised to fit your need for guaranteed uptime, response, performance and other critical parameters. We will agree on them up-front, monitor them 24/7, and back them financially.

Privacy Compliance

All Emantra services are compliant with the Australian Privacy Principles, and we have strict internal policies on data handling. The integrity of your data and service is paramount. Emantra can design and deliver services which meet other specific standards such as HIPAA and NESAF.

Technical depth

Emantra has a ten-year heritage in hosting enterprise services. We are not simply a reseller or a consultant: we are a seasoned practitioner with the technical depth and experience to match much larger organisations, but at a size which gives us superior agility.

Emantra welcomes partnerships with progressive developers, integrators, ISVs and telcos of compatible standard who share our service and customer commitment.

Ten Years

Bringing the global cloud home.

Emantra’s heritage and core competency lies in private hosting. Highly secure and resilient services for bespoke needs. Australian located, built to order, full local support by a team you know and trust. Emantra owns and operates the infrastructure, managing all aspects of service security, uptime, connectivity, maintenance, monitoring, patching, and back-up. Certified and trusted by Government, and with a national clienete of agencies and corporates.

Over the last ten years, Emantra has used this proven "as a service" model to help dozens of clients realise the benefits of new technologies well beyond that which their own resources could provide. We are proud to continue as a leader in that field today.

The global public cloud is a more recent development which some think will replace private hosting. We don't think so. It will be be disruptive but it will also drive a lot of constructive progress. The global cloud makes perfect sense for commodity IT services at high volume to millions of customers.

Private hosting however will always have a home where customers are looking for more than the lowest headline price: where qualitative factors such as your security profile, definitive compliance, service flexibility, customised integration, back-up facilities count for value, and where face-to-face trust is vital.

The value of Emantra today lies not only in its private hosting pedigree but more importantly in its ability to bring that expertise to bear to enhance and "Australianise" the global services emerging today. To bring the global cloud home, if you like.

So that’s where Emantra’s focus will be in the next Ten Years. We hope we'll see you along the way!

Customer Testimonials

In our customer's own words.

Digital Transformation Agency

The Digital Transformation Agency is an executive agency that sits within the Prime Minister and Cabinet portfolio. It is charged with leadership, coordination and advisory roles to assist the Australian Government in the realm of the emerging digital economy. DTA chose Emantra to host its digital workflow and digital asset sharing platforms, both critical elements of its strategy, because of its strong fit with the certification, systems and controls we needed for the solutions.

XVT

XVT is a business analyst, solution architect and software development firm which delivers, amongst other services, the NSW Government’s Online Planing System using the Emantra managed hosting platform. “Emantra gave us the ready facilities, tools and systems to stand up the solution in good time and on budget. Their support along the way has been exceptional." said Lawrence Howson, XVT Principal.

Unidap

Unidap Solutions is an innovative software developer and integrator with a successful range of web and mobile apps with an international clientele. Emantra supports the infrastructure needs of Unidap and the delivery of their Software as a Service model. Unidap CEO Gavin Sigley comments: “Emantra has shown a preparedness and flexibility to assist in a number of contexts, and their reliability and resilience of their systems has added to the success of Unidap’s product range.”